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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>, Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
	Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] the recently discussed flags patch
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:38:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187174282.3998.0.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708141848.57809.mb@bu3sch.de>

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On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 18:48 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:

> Please some more comments on what they actually mean
> and what's usually to do when the flag is set.

Will do.

> > +	/* Change filter flags, see above for FIF_* constants.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * Must be atomic due to running under the tx lock.
> > +	 * This callback is required.
> > +	 */
> > +	void (*change_filter_flags)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
> > +				    int changed_flags, int total_flags);
> 
> Better use unsigned int.

Yeah, did that.

> What does changed_flags and total_flags mean?
> I thought we'd like to have a pointer here, to the driver
> can clear what's not supported.

I changed that in the second version, and changed_flags indicates which
ones have changed since the last call so the driver need not set all of
them if that might be expensive.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-15 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-14 16:21 [RFC] the recently discussed flags patch Johannes Berg
2007-08-14 16:48 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-15 10:38   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-08-14 22:56 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-15 10:54 ` Johannes Berg

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